Corrupted .dsp file in Windows 7

[Guilherme_S_]

Hi,

I have a client that is trying to migrate a Compaq Fortran project to Intel Fortran. She is following the instructions on the guide "Porting Applications from Compaq Visual Fortran* to Intel® Visual Fortran Compilers". On the very first step, the migration stops with the following message while trying to open dsw file: "myprogram.dsp has been corrupted and cannot be opened."

When using another computer, the same migration works perfectly, with no error. The only explanation that I see is that something with her computer is wrong, rather than a problem with the code. Both computers use the same version of Visual Studio 2008. The biggest difference is the OS: the errors occur in Windows 7 and do not occur in XP 64 bits.

My question is:

1) Is there any trick to work with Intel Fortran in Windows 7?

2) How can I get more details of this error? Is there an log file?

[Steven_L_Intel1]

I have seen many customers report this. When they send me the .dsp file, I can convert it just fine. There is no more information available. If you'd like to attach a ZIP of the .dsp I'll see what I can do. (If you want, use "Send Author a Message" to send it to me privately.)

[Guilherme_S_]

I have some additional information:

It turns out that the problem has nothing to do about the OS (Windows 7 x Windows XP).
I still dont know what is causing the problem, but I managed to convert the project using both OS´s.

Is it possible that the problem is related to the visual studio installation? In every computer that I successfully converted the project, besides Intel Fortran there was also C++, C# and all .NET languages installed. 

In other hand, the computer with error has only Intel Fortran installed in Visual Studio IDE.

[andrew_4619]

The older versions could manage mixed language within the same project. The ifort only in VS shell would had a problem with that as I recall, I do not think it can do the migration.